Donald McRae (author)

Donald McRae (born 1961) is a South African writer.[1]

Born in Germiston in 1961, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1984 to avoid military service in the Apartheid era South African Army.

McRae is noted as the only two-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award with Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing in 1996 (2nd ed. Hamilcar Publications, 2019[2]) and In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens in 2002.[3] His other works include Winter Colours (1999), Every Second Counts: the Race to Transplant the First Human Heart (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006), The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet, published in 2009, A Man’s World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith (Simon & Schuster, 2015), Steven Gerrard: My Story (Joseph/Penguin, 2015),[4] and In Sunshine Or In Shadow: How Boxing Brought Hope In The Troubles.[5]

References

1. Jarlath Regan (21 July 2019). "How Boxing Brought Hope In The Troubles - Donald McRae". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (305 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
2. "Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing | Hamilcar Publications". hamilcarpubs.com. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
3. Rowbottom, Mike (26 November 2002). "McRae wins sports book prize for second time". The Independent. London. Retrieved 24 November 2009.^[dead link‍]
4. "DonaldMcRae.com". Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
5. "From apartheid to the Ardoyne, McRae still telling life's most interesting tales". The Irish Times. 17 June 2019.

Preceded by Laura Hillenbrand	William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner 2002	Succeeded by Tom Bower
Preceded by John Feinstein	William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner 1996	Succeeded by Simon Hughes